Project Code Names
What is a famous national park?
Denali
Who lives in Texas?
Libbie
Who coined the term 'Silicon Valley' ?
Don Hoefler (a journalist from Electronic news)
Which Avenger is the only one who could calm the Hulk down?
Black Widow
The cosmic microwave background radiation is evidence of what event?
The Big Bang
What is the theme of current codenames?
Wiskey
Who lives in Washington?
Gus
Who invented the integrated circuit and received a Nobel Price for it later?
Jack Kilby (a Texas Instruments engineer without a physics education won the Nobel Peace Prize for Physics)
In The Matrix, does Neo take the blue pill or the red pill?
Red
Which planet's surface can cook a frozen pizza in under 16 seconds?
Venus. Sadly, it will cook you at the same time, so stick to baking them in your oven for half an hour.
What were the code name of first RX and TX chips?
Batman and Robin
Who lives in Arizona?
Serban
What was the year the transistor was invented?
1947
What animated classic was the first film of the late-twentieth-century “Disney Renaissance?”
The Little Mermaid
Who is credited with creating the term "Software Engineering" while developing the software for the on-board systems of the Apollo spacecraft?
Margaret Hamilton
What was the codename for the P9090 FET?
Wren Jr.
Who lives in Germany?
Mihail
What was the name of the very first transistor?
Point Contact
In Apocalypse Now, Robert Duvall says, “I love the smell of _____ in the morning.”
Napalm
Which body has not been considered a planet since the 26th International Astronomical Union conference in August 2006?
Pluto
What was the code name for the USB 2.0 15W TX?
Lueven
Who lives in crazy town?
We all do!!!
Who is credited for making an important empirical observation in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles every 24 months?
Gordon Moore
How many suns does Luke’s home planet of Tatooine have in Star Wars?
Two
In film, The Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow says "The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side." Which famous theorem did he get wrong in this quote?
The Pythagorean Theorem